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kind of crazy to think abuot how if an adult misbehaved so you decided to hold them over your knee and spank them till they cried it would obviously been seen as sexual assault but millions of parents do that every day to their kids and no one really cares all that much

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@ parents who dont let their kids dye their hair: why r u so afraid of ur kid looking cool

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thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

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honestly you can convince parents that just about anything is necessary for their kids’ well-being except, like, respecting their boundaries/identities/basic human rights.

like, people will spend hundreds of dollars on classical music brain training kits for literal newborn infants because someone on good morning america said it might make them 0.3% smarter but god forbid you tell them to stop reading their kids’ fuckin diaries or use their correct pronouns.

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““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

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Tatromaniak over on facebook posted some fantastic photos of crocuses blossoming in the mountains (Chochołowska Valley, I think?)

and the photos remind me sooo much of the Witkiewicz painting we had in the current paintings bracket!!!!! Look at it!!!!!

Crocuses with snowy mountains in the background by Stanisław Witkiewicz, 1897

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You've gotta love Jews more than you hate Nazis.

You've gotta love trans folks more than you hate TERFs.

You've gotta love your unhoused neighbors more than you hate the billionaires.

You've gotta love immigrants more than you hate ICE.

You've gotta love queer kids more than you hate christian fundamentalists.

You've gotta love fat people more than you hate the diet industry.

You've gotta love disabled people more than you hate the insurance companies.

You've gotta love your fellow humans more than you hate the worst that humanity has to offer. You don't have to like every person you're fighting for, and you sure as hell don't have to give up your righteous anger, but hate is ultimately corrosive.

You've gotta love.

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how that meeting should've ended tbh

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life has gone so crazy lately, forgot my sense of humor, so here’s information and advice for my u.s. citizens:

an executive order is not a law. you will see lists circulating of a thousand executive orders trump has made in the past week, but be aware that the constitutionality of those orders are (knowing him) limited, and people and groups are already fighting them through the courts.

immigrants, here both legally and not, are at the most imminent risk. ice raids have begun. regardless of immigration status, i highly recommend checking out immigrantjustice.org and propagating it as a resource. know your rights and the rights of your community members.

things to do:

- chose one issue you care deeply about and organize around it. i’m usually a believer in intersectionality, and it’s important not to overlook how social issues are connected, but trying to mitigate all of the abuses happening in the country right now as an individual is not possible.

- don’t tune out, but control your stream of information. limit your time online, especially if your feed is highly political. vet your news sources. you should not expect to feel normal when reading about the current administration, but avoiding all-out panic and despair is important. believing things are hopeless is self-fulfilling.

- easier said than done, but try to avoid in-fighting. trump-supporting american conservatives (more appropriately, regressives) present a far more united front than those who oppose them. this isn’t to say we should abandon controversial issues, but to focus our efforts on the greatest existing threat and not each other.

peace, love + all of the above. stay safe!

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Literally no English-speaking people know this so I wanna share because I think it's the funniest shit ever

Y'know the quote "russian warship, go fuck yourself" that a Ukrainian guy said on the Snake Island? It became very popular among Ukrainians and was referenced in many other countries.

Ukrainians designed lots of merchandise with it, like stamps and patches, a lot of which was directed at charity early on. Then somebody made this:

The design aims to make the word "go" resemble the Ukrainian trident (coat of arms)

However, at some point people started using it without the russian warship part a lot more often. So I present to you this "patriotic mug", "patriotic pendant", and a "patriotic pillow" all of which say "go fuck yourself"

the full phrase was also very commonly displayed on billboards uncensored... there were a lot more important things to worry about other than keeping street ads appropriate lol

I feel like saying "idi nahui" lost all its offensiveness idk when I hear it I think of the meme 💀💀

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unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

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YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA.

u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me

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thoughts on like. Polish gender neutral pronouns? I’m increasingly hearing that there’s no way to de-gender a gendered language at all which i totally get but also what do non-binary people do

it's not really possible to de-gender a gendered language, yeah - a table, for example, has to be masculine in Polish, and it'd be rather counterproductive to try and deny that or change that.

but it's not counterproductive to look for a way to talk about and to someone - or about yourself - without gendering the person. is it a bit wonky in a language as strict as Polish? perhaps. will it take a long time to get widely accepted, and especially as correct Polish? of course.

but from neutrative forms, plurals, to dukaisms - the nonbinary (and not only) community in Poland has found many ways of self identification through language. and while it might sound strange at first, they work - and they can continue to do so with just a bit of effort on our end.

I would recommend the website zaimki.pl run by the “Neutral Language Council” collective - and their various language versions - and especially the bit about Polish language in English.

language is an ever-growing collective user-run project - it is human-made and human-used, and it will always keep evolving. that's what it's for!

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What doesn't kill you makes you strangely frail and overly sensitive actually

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I have to do a presentation tomorrow (which I need to read a whole ass book for) and the day after tomorrow I have an exam that I failed before, 3 or 4 years ago. it's probably going to be very difficult and also. I think it might be in Norwegian? I forgot Norwegian. I have opened my notes *once*. I'm tired and haven't slept enough. I'm also going to have a whole ass shift at work tomorrow.

fuck. I spent so much money to come back to this fucking university just to. fuck it up again.

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